These are for Cazro's Let's Stamp Swap on the DoCrafts forum. This month's theme is triple embossing for a glossy finish.

I visited the Lake District a few weeks ago and was lucky enough to call in at the factory shop for Derwent Pencils. I picked up a HUGE box of watercolour pencils half price, and there were some pastel pencils free with it as well. As you can imagine, I have been exsperimenting with them ever since.

To do these ATCs, I started off by inking and stamping the backgrounds, stamping the main images and then bleaching out the colour from the main images. I then coloured them using watercolour pencils and triple embossed them with three layers of UTEE.

Thursday, 8 July 2010

These are my ATCs for The Stamp Man ATC Swap. Well, three of them are anyway. I got a bit carried away and made a a couple of extras. This month's theme is "wings".

Unfortunately the photos don't show up the shimmeriness (is that a word?)

I made the background using Starburst Sprays, with Papermania Vinyls as masks.

I then stamped the backgrounds in distress inks and the flowers in black archival ink. I also stamped the dragonflies directly onto the ATCs because I am lazy and didn't want to cut out the legs. (Well, I tried, but they kept falling off!)

Next, I stamped the dragonflies onto white card using black archival ink and coloured them with watercolour pencils. I added highlights using white and glitter gel pens. I stamped the wings separately onto some shimmery cellophane , cut them out and stuck them on. I attached the dragonflies to the ATCs, curved the wings and put some foam pads under the wings for a 3D effect.

Sunday, 4 July 2010

These were done for one of Cazro's Let's Stamp Swaps on the theme of bleaching. I've inked and water sprayed the backgrounds, (stamped on most of them), stamped and embossed the main image and then used bleach to take out some of the colour.

Wow! I can't believe it's been such a long time since I last blogged. Between working full time, looking after two children and making the most of the lovely weather, I seem to have very little free time lately.

I have a rare day off where I'm not trying to cram a million things into it, so will try and catch up a bit.I've still been creating things as and when I've had the time so will post pictures of some of the things I've been doing.

About Me

I'm Sian Cheetham. I'm forty-something and have two children. I'm a Legal Executive and work as a City Council Property Lawyer. I am also a psychology graduate. I would love to give up work and do arts and crafts full time, but unfortunately I need the money! I love anything arty and have created this blog mainly for the purpose of sharing some of my creations. The pictures along the top are some of my encaustic art creations. I dabble in all kinds of things including ATCs, mixed media and altered art, but at the moment I mainly make cards, as there are not enough hours in the day. Thank you for visiting my blog!

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